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"Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!"
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"

"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
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"I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing."

"The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years."

"Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it."

"Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions."

"Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas."

"Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!"
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